Rakuten on December 2
At the time of the rise of Huawei's mobile phones, Xiaomi is under great pressure, and many people will compare Huawei's R&D with Xiaomi, which makes Xiaomi's CEO Lei Jun feel very depressed.
Recently, Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, donated 1.3 billion yuan to his alma mater, Wuhan University.
Lei Jun also made a public speech, he said that many people still have a lot of misunderstandings about Xiaomi. What is misunderstood?There are always people who say, "Xiaomi is an assembly factory, Xiaomi has little R&D investment, and Xiaomi has no core technology." ”
Lei Jun admits that on the whole, Xiaomi does have a certain gap compared with the world's top technology companies. But as a 13-year-old company, Xiaomi's investment and strength in research and development are still quite strong.
In the past five years, Xiaomi's R&D investment has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 384%, Xiaomi's R&D investment in 2022 will be 16.2 billion yuan, and it is expected to reach 20 billion yuan in 2023, and more than 100 billion yuan will be invested in technology research and development in the next five years.
Lei Jun said, what is the level of 16.2 billion yuan?In September 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Finance issued the "2022 National Statistical Communiqué on Science and Technology Investment", and the national R&D expenditure in 20202 was 30,782900 million. Xiaomi's R&D investment has accounted for 0% of all R&D expenditures in the country, including central enterprises, state-owned enterprises, universities, research institutions, and private enterprises53%。
As another example, let's take an area that Xiaomi may be the least good at in everyone's eyes, 5G standard patents. This field is the strength of communication equipment manufacturers, and it especially needs to accumulate and precipitate, and it needs to be boiled for years. However, even so, in the "Ranking of Global Patent Family Enterprises with Effective 5G SEP Declarations" released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology this year, Huawei is the world's leader, accounting for 14%.And Xiaomi's patents account for 41%, which has entered the top 10 in the world.
Lei Jun said that he had been troubled by the problem of misunderstanding. Later, I figured it out, there is no need to be entangled, the key depends on your own growth.
On the other hand, everyone compares the 13-year-old Xiaomi with Apple, Samsung, and Huawei, which is a very high expectation and high demand for us. It's just that the rice is eaten one bite at a time, and the road is taken step by step. Lei Jun believes that as Xiaomi's R&D investment continues to increase and its strength is getting stronger and stronger, we will be able to win everyone's trust and recognition by virtue of our own continuous growth.
In August 2023, Lei Jun announced Xiaomi's strategic goal for the new decade: to invest in the underlying core technology on a large scale, and strive to become a new generation of global hard-core technology leader.
Just last month, Xiaomi just released Xiaomi Surging OS, which is the world's first operating system for the whole ecology of people, cars and homes, ready for tens of billions of devices and tens of billions of connections in multiple scenarios such as mobile phones, homes, and cars. At the same time, Xiaomi has been doing a lot of very cutting-edge and advanced technologies, such as AI, chips, intelligent manufacturing, humanoid robots, etc.
Lei Jun pointed out that greatness comes out, and Xiaomi must be firm and patient enough. Xiaomi has only been gone for 13 years, and it will have to go firmly for at least 30 years before it can become a truly great company. This is an interesting phenomenon, in the field of hard-core technology and manufacturing, almost all really great companies have experienced more than 30 years of experience, whether it is Sony, Apple, Samsung, or Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, as well as our local Huawei, BYD, 30 years is a key threshold.
Why 30 years?Because 30 years is the time for several generations of engineers to go forward and build a deep and leading technology system;It is the time it takes to grow to a sufficient scale to catch up with and surpass the pre-existing giants in the relevant industry. On the other hand, a technology company must go through several ups and downs, and go through the test of the industry and macro cycles, in order to lay a solid industrial foundation and form a deep influence and leadership on the industrial chain.
Lei Jun believes that China's hard-core science and technology development, which has gradually participated in global competition since the 90s of the last century, is crossing the threshold of 30 years. On the one hand, China's technology companies are catching up with and surpassing the world's top R&D technology level in the current underlying technology tracksOn the other hand, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is surging, and the cutting-edge hard-core scientific and technological strength is the decisive force.
Modern science and technology is a global battle for technology, resources, talents, and markets, and we must seize the opportunity to win the future. Lei Jun pointed out that in the current geopolitical environment, the more we face blockade and suppression, the less we can engage in self-isolation and self-isolation. "We must always uphold a broad vision and mind, be self-reliant and self-reliant on the one hand, and cooperate and open up on the other, use global superior resources for us, form an open innovation ecology with global competitiveness, and constantly move towards the high-end of the global value chain. ”
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